The Latest Breaking News from the Pacific Ocean

40,000 sq ft manor overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Malibu is thought to be California’s most expensive home ever

Scientists have discovered more than 5,000 previously unknown species living at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The creatures, which were spotted by remote-controlled vehicles sent down to the ocean floor, include worms, octopuses, corals and “gummy squirrels” – neon-coloured sea cucumbers with large tails that roam the seabed like…

New Caledonia has lifted a tsunami warning triggered after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Friday in the Pacific Ocean southwest of the island.

I was part of a team that recently discovered human-made pollutants in one of the deepest and most remote places on Earth – the Atacama Trench, which goes down to a depth of 8,000 meters in the Pacific Ocean. The presence of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in such a remote location…

The passenger, a man from Australia, has been missing since Tuesday night. An air crew will resume their search at first light Thursday, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

Most travelers likely have heard of Los Cabos, a celebrated Mexican tourist spot that sits on the southern tip of Baja California, the linear peninsula that’s bounded by the Pacific Ocean on one side and the Sea of Cortez (a.k.a. the Gulf of California) on the other.

Will plans to mine the Pacific Ocean for metals needed in the green energy transition put our oceans at risk?

A study of plastic trash hauled out of the Pacific Ocean found that most of it had been colonized by coastal life that was thriving right next to species that normally live in the open sea.

Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu said that strategic missile carriers will fly to the middle of the Pacific Ocean to imitate strikes on ship groups of a mock enemy